Grrl Power #706 – The girl who cried woof
“What species are you?” is probably a conversation you should have before you fool around with someone.
This whole page happened because I thought the name “Woof” was basically the funniest sounding name for a race of aliens. Sure, there are sillier words, and it’d be funny if we met a race of proud warrior aliens, but their name for themselves in our language sounds like “Drippy dicks” or “Fart nose.” We’d probably just insist on calling them something else.
But “Woof” is such a stupid and simple name for a race of aliens, made so much worse that it sounds like wolf, and they kind of look like wolves… a little. We’d probably try and call them that anyway, only to find out that it’s a horrible slur in their language.
Whole alien languages could be like that, too. It’s an amazing coincidence that Klingon sounds tough, with lots of hard consonants. Imagine if it sounded like French, or a typical sentence sounded like “Flooppy ploopy blippity bloop, hazaaaaa.” They would lose some of their menacing edge. No one carries gravitas speaking like that.
Fun fact. Women’s breasts do fun things when they laugh, but it’s usually much less polite to point that out.
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I Just want to say, that face in the last pannel. Very nicely done. She’s happy, and I like it.
His kind beeing called “Woof” does make sence at least from a linuistic point of view. If woof or woof like sound is a sound that nearly all of his people can make, and make regularily do then it would not be unthinkable to simply know them as “they who woof” or “we who woof” depending on who named them.
His people have him serving on board Cora’s ship as part of their Alien Reconnaissance Force, or ‘ARF’.
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAH
OMG, that’s great!
I dunno, I think that joke was pretty ruff.
Ok, and now I just almost choked on my dinner, that’s the best thing I’ve read all week.
+1 bucket of fried chicken
Further analysis, it may have been a common noise for them, but it also may refer to the sound of something hastily catching fire, and from that “common and easy expression + Word of fire” = People associated, first with fire, then with the sun, and by extension stars as well.
I would expect a more common encounter to go,
(My people are called the S’kar’sohn
*Wow, what does that mean?
(I have no idea, what am I a linguist?
I would like to day, that I believe ALL the faces in this page are really well done (but only slightly more so than your normal excellent work.)
Also, I probably read about 6 webcomix every morning before work and I almost always save yours as for last as it is ever so slightly edging past schlock mercenary as best.
I am exactly the same, except I read them at lunch. I love SM, but GP does indeed edge it out.
Just waiting on something to happen when they are in the bath that requires Sydney to use both hands on the orbs and have to stay that way till she gets home. Then the team all see her with Woof.
For “shenanigans” read “canoodling”. Sydney has that afterglow look which means wolf boy has hauled her ashes and she’s still riding the crest of the wave. I wonder if he has a knot ‘you know where’ like dog’s do.
I kind of expect a comment from Dabbler when she finds out.
I expect her to be teased with offers of space “morning after” contraceptives that might actually be effective against horned alien beast babies exploding from her abdominal area. … always fun to tease the pre-warp barbarians.
He’s the ship’s medic and he’s already given her treatment, which meant he’s looked up information in the galactic database on treating humans (this is NOT their first encounter by any means with them, see the “Son of the Sun Horus” backflash where he’s talking about doing a little anonymous sex tourism…several thousand years ago!)…so Frix would have also–thinking her offer of fur brushing meant shenanigans–looked up what activities were safe for interacting with her species, and how to prevent (if even necessary) any and all sorts of complications, ranging from progeny to STDs.
Having made a knot joke or two, I now wonder if the whole thing swells up to that size, rather than a single locus. That’d explain a look of contentment, for sure.
mfw when reading this comment and immediately noticing the banner ad for theknot.com
Wolf + Worf = Woof?
Counselor Troi’s mother called Worf by the name Woof a few times. He did not approve.
It has always been a pet peeve of mine that post-coital women are always portrayed covering their breasts. I understand the need to maintain a pg-13 rating, but in my experience women do not got from having their breasts touched, kissed and nuzzled to abruptly hiding them in case there might be a camera that somehow missed the sex. I suppose if they were ashamed of what they had done they might immediately cover up, but in that case they wouldn’t be lounging about nude-but-covered
I think it’s more of a temperature thing. you just got done with a lot of naked exertions, as you said, nips were likely played with, so moisture is a factor, so even the air can be a bit much on a sensitive body.
I look at it as she was resting on the edge of the bath with her arms in front of her to protect her boobs from the corner of the tub. Then when she turns around she is doing that ‘hands clasped while thinking’ thing. Then her arms are just comfortable so she keeps them there.
Also, it could be that she is still a little shy. Yeah she just had shenanigans, but you can still be shy with someone you’ve just met. Even if you just had fun together. :P You don’t know them well. So, cover up until you’re comfortable around them.
I am a woman, and I occasionally hide my breasts after coitus, if I’m feeling nervous, or just sometimes like to hold them :P
It may be based on cross-cultural norms. Sydney may have been embarrassed when he saw her body for the first time and he said “Wait, your species only has two? That’s odd.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Love it! That gets an “Around The World and Back” snap.
In my experience some women get extremely overstimulated post coitus, and need absolutely no touching for a while. Especially on the breasts.
And since no one else posted it, here’s the TVTropes link for the Modesty Bedsheet.
Not clicking that trap, butt do you mean the ‘L’ shaped bedsheets? Covers the woman up to her eyebrows butt leaves the man bare down to his navel, while they are beside each other touching?
Why do you ^insist^ on using butt in place of but!?
In the first few panels she is leaning on her arms while getting a massage. Then the thinking and pointing hands. In the last panel they could be on the way down.
Yeah, have a similar complaint
It’s like, it’s fine for the guy to do kinky things with them, butt afterwards? “Nope, you are no longer allowed to even look at them! Pervert!”
Is it bad that when all is said and done, I want a full page of Syd curled up and napping with Frix?
I am reminded of a scene from the Alien Nation movie: When learning his new alien partner has been given the name “Sam Francisco” Detective Matthew Sykes names lite of it but Sam understands and tells Matt; It is like your name… Sykes. I’m sure it doesn’t bother you at all that it sounds like “ss’ai k’ss,” two words in my language which mean “excrement” and “cranium.” – sh|thead.
It also reminded me of an episode from B5. A man just picked up an alien woman in the bar and as they were heading back to her place for some fun security stopped them. The man accused the officer of being against cross species relations. Securities response was “If you really want to I won’t stop you. She did tell you her species eats their mates after right?” Man looks at her and she just nods.
Important info to know before taking on cross species lovers so you don’t unknowingly get death by snuu snuu.
Ah….thanks dad, for taking me to see Alien Nation when I was barely 10 years old in the theaters. I miss you. Seriously, I love that movie. Sonny Corleone with a Magnums Magnum teamed up with Inigo Montoya!
No matter what species, there’s always going to be at least one “Richard Cranium” among them.
Dave, I don’t suppose Frix’s home world is located in the constellation Canis Major?
In my head I keep hearing Madeline Kahn saying “Woof!” in a particular movie.
That would be ‘Young Frankenstein.” When the monster kidnapped her & took her to a secluded place & then showed her his “enormous schwanzstuger.” Yep, that’s what she said.
Every time I look at Sydney’s expression in the last panel – I can’t help laugh ^ w ^
I know it’s different it the various world languages, but in the UK we write a dogs bark as WOOF. Kids learn dogs go woof, cats go meow. I thought America was the same. Guess not…
It depends on the location I guess. In the north I’ve heard ARF WOOF and BARK used commonly. To a lesser lesser extent (less of a teaching thing and more it just shows up), I’ve seen a fair amount of YIP BOOF and YELP too.
Ye, it differs in other locations. In Russia dogs do (russian letters now, hope you will see them) “Гав!” instead of woof, that you will write and hear as “Gav!”
In the UK, ‘Gav’ has a different meaning :P
Well everyone’s different, just take how on this planet we “spell” meow
Catalan: Meu
Chinese: Mao
Danish: Miaav
Dutch: Miauw
Finnish: Miau or Kurnau
French: Miaou
Greek: Naiou
Hebrew: Miau or Miya
Hungarian: Miaaau
Japanese: Nyan
Korean: Yaong or Nyaong
Norwegian: Mjau
Portuguese: Miau
Spanish: Miau
Those people in Japan and Korea really don’t seem to know what sound a cat makes, do they?
Reminds me of how people on Arrested Development or The Room’s Tommy Wiseau make sounds of ‘chickens.’ :)
Then again, in English it’s ‘cat’ – that doesnt sound like mew or meow at ALL.
A lot of the asian languages structure their alphabet differently with each character being what we would think of as a constanant and a vowel. Y is a vosel and sometimes j an both are character that weren’t originally from those languages.
Like in Japanese th ph mn tt ck and the like simply don’t exist.
Incidentally as a cat owner I have heard my cat go:
mew mea mao naa noo niaw naow prrr nrrr grr giir graa and a few other sounds I can’t think of how to type. There is such a thing as animals from different countries predominately using different sounds. Toby’s most common sounds are mao naa and naow with occasional RAAAAOWS!
I’m pretty sure your cat isn’t a cat and is actually an alien pretending to be a cat.
Just letting you know. I’m not going to call MIB on you or anything like that.
Don’t blame the hyu-mons in those countries, blame the furry balls of fury for speaking with an accent :P
+1.
One of my cat squeaks and yowls uncomplainingly. I’ve never heard her make any noise resembling those. Nyan is the closest of them.
Are you sure you werent just listening to this instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
The guy on the Arrested Development staff who -did- know what chickens sound like, did manage to get that wisecrack in, eventually.
no, we do.
No, no, it is. That’s the joke. He’s a dog-alien, and his race is Woof. It’s funny, see?
Making it even more hilariously on the nose, “woof” as in interjection is also used to indicate strong sexual attraction.
There may be a causal link. The perceived sound that a dog should make, in a given culture, would be the one that owners will respond to the most readily. So a dog will learn to modify its bark to the one which achieves the best results, when seeking human attention.
Whilst different noises it may make will not be as readily noticeable as they may not be made whilst interacting with humans. Their accents when speaking to each other may be very different.
Although, on the other paw, it may simply be that the regional accent of animals are the ones we recognise. For instance there are many different species of frog, around the word. But only one of them says “ribbit”, and that lives in a narrow geographical area. Which happens to be centered on Hollywood.
In his race they don’t compare to the size of the hand (or foot), it is how deep the ‘woof’.
And for pity’s sake people, they are barely into foreplay! She got a back rub and hasn’t even handled the brush. Not saying there wasn’t any wagging going on under the water, but keep it clean…
This is after the happy shenanigans
Please keep in mind that “America” is rather large.
Most of our states have more square miles then many of the Counties of the EU. Not saying it’s better or anything, but it is a LOT of space in which languages get morphed.
Having lived in a tourist area for some time, just wanted to say this tends to have an interesting effect on Europeans sightseeing in the USA for the first time.
“What else are you guys doing before you fly home in 2 days?”
“Well, we still haven’t been to the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls, so we thought we’d spend tomorrow morning driving to hit both of those. And maybe the Space Needle or a night in Vegas if we still have time after that.”
Worked at Disney World in college and can attest to that mindset. Oh, sure we’ll have seen the Kingdom by lunchtime and do Epcot for a few hours. Think we can clear MGM (Hollywood Studios now) in the morning then pick one of them for repeats. Yah, sure now there is Animal Kingdom and a sports theme park, and what? Two water parks. Sure. That’s not even with immense distances between like the previous example. You can barely SEE one park using the whole day! I used to work 6 hour shifts on weekends just to explore the parks piecemeal in 4 hour blocks (mind you cast members never waited in lines) and the place just grew more.
We took some freinds from Germany on a tour of the warships of Texas, USS Texas (BB-35) herself, USS Cavalla (SS/SSK/AGSS-244) USS Stewart (DE-238) and the Grey Ghost (Lexington CV-16)
They got very quiet when they realised I was doing 85mph, and it still took 3 hours to get from Galveston to Corpus.
3 days, no kids, to see 80% of all the parks. (not the water parks. park hopper)
Not all the rides, just a couple of shows, but we walk quick.
In 2001, a Polish exchange student was staying with a friend of mine at the University of Florida. When the towers were hit, her parents wanted to know if she could see the smoke. She had to explain that it was *literally* a thousand miles away.
He resembles a goat quite a bit, so wouldn’t that make him a goof?
… so a military squadron of them would be a goof troop?
Just don’t get Goofy mad at you. He’s normally an easy-ging kind of fellow, but he does have a mean streak if you cross him badly enough.
Of course, no one has gone through an accelerated language course that we know of, so Frix and Sydney are actually still talking through some form of translator. (They may not be wearing anything, but there is certainly vocal access to some form of ship’s computer available.) So Frix may not have said “Woof”, or heard “human”. The risability of the species names may be entirely up to the programming of the computer. And it may have a sense of humor…
Then there’s the name of our planet which literally means “dirt”…
Terra means Land, not dirt.
Either way, I’m sure that in most languages and cultures, the place where they are from translates back to something similar, or that is common enough that many world names have similar meanings or origins.
“Earth” does mean “dirt” though.
But you can only get dirt from land. If the land happens to be underwater you get mud but that’s just dirt + water.
Actually wrong in a few ways. *puts on her overly semantic hat*
1) The actual original ‘name’ of our planet is Terra. Which is latin for ‘land’ – not dirt
2) Earth doesn’t mean dirt if you want to be technical. Dirt is loosely packed soil or sand – which is part of the earth, but not the entirety – there’s also rock, water, gasses, and magma (which I guess is also rock). Earth is not loosely packed soil or sand – when people do refer to soil as ‘earth’ they are meaning more ‘this is part of the earth.’ :)
Unspecified amount of quality and quantity, combined with the amount she still hids bits from him.
makes one curious if it was mostly one sided shenanagans or not.
You know someone is going to make all the fan art comic of this
Dabbler: “Dabbler Fun Sex Fact: The innuendo “Sixty-nine” actually translates perfectly across most languages across the galaxy. The symbol “69” may not represent the number sixty-nine, but the symbolism is well-recognized and used by many cultures.” *Eyebrows wiggling up and down suggestively.*
The horoscope symbol “Cancer” also looks like it.
And also the Taoist symbol for Yin & Yang.
Those taoists are notorious horndogs.
I am reminded of that scene in “Alien Nation” where detective Sikes learns that his last name sounds like a portmanteau of “excrement cranium” in Tenctonese but it’s funny instead of insulting. Of course that set up a much later scene where he invites the Newcomer neighbor over to watch a “Three Stooges” marathon and at the end she’s “I can’t believe how vulgar they were! Don’t you know what nyuk-nyuk-nyuk means in Tenctonese!” Oh wait, the first bit is from the movie, the latter is from the series.
The scene that just leaped into my mind is “The following is a test of the emergency broadcast system…”
I’m just imagining what alien visitors may fell if they discover 40k and our history of genocides, or /r/HFY/. But like Dabbler said, we have some issues to work out.
Eat any good books lately?
In weaving you have the warp and the woof. Humans have theorized for decades about using a space warp drive to travel faster than light. Sydney has simply discovered that we’ve been using the wrong word. :-)
I’ve always heard it as ‘warp and weft’ when weaving. No?
They’re interchangeable, but I think ‘weft’ is more common. Which makes the pun that much more fun to thread together.
You are sew in trouble for that pun!
Valentines Day Sex Drive for 2019 gonna show what happened here by chance??? >_>
+1
and another vote here!
+1
I would love to seeeeeeeee alll of the glory and all of the sex with the woof and sydney. And also a close up on the knoting. Hew hew hew. Yeah I am a bit over the top for sydnes furry sex. But who gives a flying sauser.
I like how this is being agreed with.
… i knew the action would be skipped over. I knew we would not get to see any action… i knew that.
Im still dissapointed :.(
I feel for you. Unfortunately, this is the internet, and as everyone knows there is no such thing as pornographical images being on the internet. Definitely no set of numbered rules relating to porn on the internet either.
I´ not sure if im supposed to read between the lines here or if you are naive.
The fact that there is a song literaly called “The internet is for porn” makes me think you are asking me to go to “rule 34” and look around… alredy have by the way, supriced that there is so little there.
Now I feel bad that no one ever taught you sarcasm. :)
They have porn for practically everything. Including Voltron, for god’s sake. (and the anime about Stephen Foster, which no one’s ever heard of).
Schlock Mercenary had a very funny potential name for a species. They’re a cyclopic race from the planet “Oth.” Thankfully, they managed to convince the galactic civilizations to call them “Uniocs” rather than “Others.”
I’m so happy that Sydney is getting a chance to enjoy herself. I’m just waiting for her to whisper to Dabbler later “You were right. Fur IS nice.”
I’m aware of the distance between Xuriel and Sydney.
Her Porno Sense must have tingled. I site this evidence as support:
Kooki Sanban: “I don’t smell them with my NOSE, silly. I smell them with my heart.”
Any way we could get the second panel as a banner? I love the look on syd’s face
All her faces :D
I got a pretty excellent reaction from the cast in addition to the new page :)
https://www.deviantart.com/viirin/art/Perfect-783593316?ga_submit_new=10%3A1548962682
Considering the fur, it’s probably a very good thing for Sydney that his race isn’t called “Wook”!
Remember, don’t shave the entire Wookie.*
* not what you’re probably thinking, and yes it’s SFW
Real life was faster. I got an email from HR at a company I sent an application to, where the name sounds like a string of childishly insulting words. I am not even sure how to pronounce parts of it (is “oo” an “uh” or an “oh”?), but either reading sounds funny. And to top it off, both for the first and the last name.
I hold that they put them into HR to filter out people, who can’t hold back an ill-timed joke.
Regardless, I absolutely didn’t see that punchline coming XD
English describes every bark like sound a dog makes as woof. If you have a barking language, there are going to be lots of subtleties English is not capable of describing.
Woof, wooof, WOOF!
*wags tail for vital emphasis*
There are other doggie dialects than English.
https://barkpost.com/discover/woof-other-languages/
https://birdgei.com/2015/11/24/woof-woof-dog-barks-in-different-languages/
My Mom had a dog that whenever she was letting the dog out to defecate she would ask the dog, “you have to go out?” Imagine our surprise one day when the dog came into the living room and she sort of yipped out the word “out”. And the way she was prancing about it was obvious that she really needed to go out. That was the only recognisable word we ever heard from the dog. Apparently her desperation overcame the lack of lips.
You’re forgetting ‘arf’ & ‘yap.’
And eveybody (except one) has also seem to have forgotten ‘yorp.’
*sheds a little tear*
The Doctor Who Judoon speech is monosyballic, ending in o. Badass Rhino Space Cops barking, “ Ro fo jo do ko lo so bo.”
Well they say the difference between erotic and kinky is if you use a feather or a chicken…
Shenanigans confirmed!
So a thing that is bothering me is that Sidney keeps covering her breasts (and not for that reason pervos!). See if she just had, ahem, shenanigans why be shy now? He’s seen it and done it all presumably. And if its to censor things just keeps the nips below the water line. This just comes across as weird to me, how she just keeps those hands right there even when gesturing. Its unnatural.
Neither shyness nor body image issues go away after one shagging.
Body image issues do not go away after two or three shaggings.
Shyness issues do not go away afer thirteen or fourteen shaggings.
Sex, however good, does not magically cure things.
…They can help, and your mileage may vary…but speaking as someone who was shy and who had body image issues (as most females are forced to have due to the constant onslaught of advertisement telling us we’re not gorgeous enough, perfect enough, thin enough, curvy enough, flat enough, tall enough, short enough…ugh, ENOUGH!)…one shag, however good, was not enough.
Plus, she’s able to combine her shyness with perfectly reasonable body bracing for a massage, thoughtfulness, shy yet warm basking in appreciation of the other person’s physique…
Sex does not magically cure things, no…
Although if you pass out from an orgasm, I think bodyissues may be a thing of “before” and “after” but not “now”.
To give credit where it’s due, Cora is not the first captain to use canines on a ship’s crew.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/amY2SURxQto/maxresdefault.jpg
Personally, if a similar situation happened to me I’d definitely ask their species name first.
Her smile in that last panel is creeping me out…
I’m not creeped out, because I’ve felt & seen that smile on my own face…after getting my *cough* metaphorical ashes properly and thoroughly hauled by an intimate partner.
…And yes, it is possible to be sated to the point of deep stress-released relaxation, giggly with post-shenanigans euphoria, and still be body-shy around your (new) partner…
Hmm, on the alien species naming. As an excuse I’d assume they’d name themselves, with the exceptions being races that can’t be communicated with being named (poorly) by humans like *Living Tongue* or *Silver Needles*
typically I try to make (strong, warrior, or threatening species) have names that portray this.
Rai,
Kuhrai,
Ohroarnium,
Ooskar,
ect…
while species that try to come across as higher than thou forces given oddly majestic sounding names
Ju-el,
Amonel,
Amana,
Although I do have one whose name went through some changes and is still a tad silly, the Croon.
Originally they were the Cren (Cricket Men), but due to this being an actual name changed to Crin, before finally changing to Croon.
on a personally level is the Panther Woman pirate Cata. As a…shall we just admit, excuse, to explain why the half Kuhrai, half Aesperian Panther Woman would give herself such an obvious pun name, her true name is Kathara Harana, she shortened it, and my spelling is just for fun, not like either Kuhrai or Aesperian has a letter C in their languages anyway.
That naming sense reminds me of the Srunner in The Accidental Space Spy, except with less cursing.
Also, I am going to need a significant amount of footage of women laughing to test your supposition.
For science.
What Frix says in panel #6 reminds me of something that Kirk said in Star Trek: The Journey Home.
“I live in Iowa. I only work in space.”
Coincidence?
I think NOT.